Re: The General Footy Thread

Greg Dyke, what a twat. Wants to win the WC in 2022?? So no intention of the next 2 tourno's? Fucking mug. This is the reason we are shit. Because we are fucking inept from the top down. Add passionless wanker's to the equation and there's your sum product. A team that cant even take penalties. Penalties we have failed at since the early 70s. Stupid fucks.

Re: The General Footy Thread

Dermo wrote:

Greg Dyke, what a twat. Wants to win the WC in 2022?? So no intention of the next 2 tourno's? Fucking mug. This is the reason we are shit. Because we are fucking inept from the top down. Add passionless wanker's to the equation and there's your sum product. A team that cant even take penalties. Penalties we have failed at since the early 70s. Stupid fucks.

Refreshing to have someone set some goals.

They're a little missguided and definitely not achievable but I admire him for trying to do something about it rather than take the wage and roll over a la David Bernstein.

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smallman1 wrote:

Dermo wrote:

Greg Dyke, what a twat. Wants to win the WC in 2022?? So no intention of the next 2 tourno's? Fucking mug. This is the reason we are shit. Because we are fucking inept from the top down. Add passionless wanker's to the equation and there's your sum product. A team that cant even take penalties. Penalties we have failed at since the early 70s. Stupid fucks.

Refreshing to have someone set some goals.

They're a little missguided and definitely not achievable but I admire him for trying to do something about it rather than take the wage and roll over a la David Bernstein.

Agree. TBF i'm sick of not hearing a long term strategy - it's always been about the immediate future with England. And we all know that right now we are nowhere near good enough to even compete. It's good to hear someone looking ahead a bit. What they actually do about it is another matter - letting the younger players stay playing the U21 tournaments together would be a good start, rather than burning them out and rushing them into the first team. Let them play together and come through the ranks (so to speak) so they already know each others game by the time they get to the senior team. The fact that the players are not currently good enough is also a separate discussion....

We could learn a lot from how the crouts have done things over the last 10 years.

Re: The General Footy Thread

if the FA want a better national team that cunt Richard Scudamore needs to stop looking for the next big pay day and milking the Premiership for all that it is worth

a return to a max 3 foreign players cap would be a good idea

also bringing in a max wage cap of £200k would be adviseable

trouble starts at grass roots - this problem has existed since the premiership began (and before) but cos we had the 'golden generation' it has been glossed over

what the fuck is Trevor Brooking actually doing to improve things exactly?

we are still woefully short of fully badged up football coaches who will instill a more 'technical' emphasis

Problem is most Premier league clubs arent bothered about the National team, look at Arsenal and Chelsea for example, how many English players have they actually brought through their first teams that have been first team regulars? Not very many.You also have to remember that the 3 foreigner rule was completely unworkable, especially now that any EU players would be exempt from it as its against "freedom of movement" and sadly thats against the law (as long as we stay in the EU of course)The FA brought in their quota for home grown players which states that "clubs will be required to have a squad named of up to 25 players, of which no more than 17 can be over the age of 21 and not home grown" The problem with that is though“The definition of home grown is trained for three years under the age of 21 by somebody in the English and Welsh professional system. Clubs will have to declare their 25 at the end of August when the window shuts and then again at the end of January.”So all these academies will now just bring in foreign youngsters, put them through their academies and circumnavigate the rules that way.But the other side of the coin is that most young players want the football lifestyle but without actually doing the work for it, youve got kids at Man City earning 10,000 a week yet arent even near getting in the first team with teams always buying overseas its easy to see why English players at these big clubs end up signing for smaller clubs just so they can get a game and England managers rarely look beyond the top 4 clubs for their players